Fruit & Vegetable Gardens

Food meters not miles!

When Tony and Tricia were bringing up their children, Matt, Ben and Vicki, they grew their own vegetables, so they knew where they came from and what was making them grow!

Since then the kitchen garden has taken on a new lease of life with two full time green fingered people coming along – Tim (Head Gardener) and Simon. With help from others including WWOOFERS (Workers on an organic farm) throughout the year, we now produce on average £800 worth of veg. per month, all grown organically using the Charles Dowding ‘No Dig Way’.

We are also growing lots of the vegetables that we include in Bruton Primary School lunches that we’ve been cooking since September 2014.

Fruit

Apples, Pears, Plums, Apricots, Peaches, Nectarines, Grapes.

We offer all visiting residential school the chance to partake in our garden to table activity. The children can learn all about seasonal vegetables, pick them, taste some different salad leaves and understand why we grow everything organically. We find that groups who have a Garden to Table activity included in their programme generally leave less food waste a meal times.